Medine - Enfant du destin

For more than twenty years, Medina has been telling the world through her fractures. With children of

He returns to one of the most significant series of his work: these stories of children taken

in the turmoil of history.

Born with his first album in 2004, these tracks tell of destinies broken by the great

world movements: colonization, war, slavery, oppression. But behind them

events, there is always a face, a name, an interrupted childhood.

David, Souhan, Kunta Kinte, Nour or Yasser... Whether real or fictional, the Children of Destiny

They become the bearers of a collective memory. Through them a fresco is drawn

history where yesterday's violence seems to dialogue with today's.

In this new stage form, Medina revisits these stories in a new way.

Acoustic and intimate. During 1h30, worn by the piano and guitar of Guillaume

Zolnierowsky, as well as through the voice and cello of Sheherazade, he unrolls these stories

Like a modern storyteller.

On stage, Karinale Lo van Zaouiche intervenes by keys, opening gaps in the narrative.

In these dialogues, the word circulates, questions, doubts. History ceases to be an

A simple story of the past to become a question about the present.

Between concert and theatre, Enfants du fête invents a hybrid territory. A suspended place.

A buffer zone where one comes to take breath, bandage the memories and interrogate the

Cyclic brutality of the world.

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